Haikus from WWDC session transcripts

So, a lot of you

I'm sure are familiar with

Grand Central Dispatch

At ReignDesign we're a big fan of AsciiWWDC, a great resource for reading and searching the full-text transcripts of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference session videos.

And there's something a little poetic about the way the transcripts are listed. This inspired some late-night hacking creating wwdc-haiku, a simple Python script which, given a session number, attempts to scan the transcript of a single session for possible haikus (that is, sentences with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern).

$ ./wwdc-haiku 228
And what happens is
you choose that and you see a
window like this pop
So, it's going to
look very similar to
the last example
And actually
I'm backing it this time by
a dictionary
So, a lot of you
I'm sure are familiar with
Grand Central Dispatch
It's just one of those
things that it takes a while to
get into your head
I think the two most
useful and interesting
ones are max and min
It's returning a
Boolean whether or not
it was successful
So, was that that was
pretty fast, but I think we
hit everybody